The traditional use of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae in alcoholic fermentation has,
over time, resulted in substantial accumulated knowledge concerning genetics, physiology …

Xylitol is a GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) polyol commonly used in the food industry
and able to promote several benefits to the health. In addition, it can also be used as a …

Aerobic fermentation, also referred to as the Crabtree effect in yeast, is a well-studied
phenomenon that allows many eukaryal cells to attain higher growth rates at high glucose …

Eukaryotic cells are used as cell factories to produce and secrete multitudes of recombinant
pharmaceutical proteins, including several of the current top-selling drugs. Due to the …

Understanding the conditions that promote the maintenance of cooperation is a classic
problem in evolutionary biology,,,,. The essence of this dilemma is captured by the 'tragedy …

Utilization of exogenous sugars found in lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysates, such as
xylose, must be improved before yeast can serve as an efficient biofuel and biochemical …

In the unicellular eukaryote Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Cln3–cyclin-dependent kinase
activity enables Start, the irreversible commitment to the cell division cycle. However, the …

Although transplantation of single genes in yeast plays a key role in elucidating gene
functionality in metazoans, technical challenges hamper humanization of full pathways and …

To grow and divide, cells must extract resources from dynamic and unpredictable
environments. Many organisms use different metabolic strategies for distinct contexts …

Key distinguishing characteristics of yeast glucose metabolism are the relative proportions of
fermentation and respiration. Crabtree-positive yeast species exhibit a respirofermentative …